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Leaking CO2 trials, Ardmuknish Bay
Ten research institutes are to trial injecting C02 over a month below the seabed of Ardmucknish Bay, then drill to make it leak while monitoring the seabed and sediment for the next 90 days with sesnors, acoustic techniques and seismic testing.
EMP risk warning for infrastructure
"Developing threats: Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP)" report published by the Defence Committee stresses how space weather or a nuclear weapon exploded at altitude that caused EMP could devastate the UK industrial and business sectors.
Translational implants: maths & medicine
A European translational research project that has just closed, brought together basic scientific knowledge from the areas of mathematics, medicine and computer science with the aim optimising the replacement of individual shoulder joints (patient-specific). In a world where off-the- shelf hIp and knee replacements are commonplace, tailored or patient specific implants sounds alluring.
Dog days: look alikes or personality traits?
"There is a little bit of truth in the theory that owners look like their dogs, but if you are of a robust build you will probably have a more robust dog so that you can gets lots of exercise. If you are more slight you may want a poodle as you think that they need less exercise."
Oxygen deprivation answer
Dr. Stephen Lee, professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of Ottawa, makes a breakthrough to answer a question Louis Pasteur and others have struggled with for 150 years: “How do bodily cells function at a high altitude where the air contains little oxygen?”
Albagaia and the Angels
Visitors to the Albagaia Ltd website will find that Albagaia has acquired Hydrosense's pioneering legionella testing kit and inventor Dr Neil Polwart, who joins as chief operating officer will assist in developing new mainstream applications for the Albagaia patented technology.
Short term renewables rethink
Wind is creating a storm of issues for the renewable energy sector and ranges from wind speed boasts not living up to claims; wind farm developers funding environmental and wildlife organisations, biasing their approval of windfarm plans, and most recently wind farm location on peat bog areas unleashing CO2 from the irreparable peat sinks for a mere 25 years, less than a generation, of variable energy returns.
White tail eagle chick arrives
Mull gets its first white-tailed eagle chick of the year, with a second hoped for in the next couple of days, after the adult birds have incubated the eggs for the past 38 days.
Luminous Turing Research Symposium
As part of a worldwide programme of celebrations marking the centenary of British code-breaker, mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing’s birth, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh will be holding a high profile research symposium at the University of Edinburgh’s Informatics Forum
NHS: EMRAM and ADASTRA
As British Computer Society (BCS) and Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) sign a memorandum of understanding to introduce Analytics Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM) to UK, Tayside, Forth Valley and Borders NHS Boards have gone live with Adastra from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced). a patient management system designed specifically for out-of-hours, urgent and unscheduled care, now used across all 14 Scottish NHS Boards.
Energy research skills and Tiree
As the issue of disturbing impacts on local climate of the proposed Tiree Array is raised, the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) appoints Professor Jim Skea as Strategy Fellow for the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme. Suitably, a founder member of the Committee on Climate Change, he will over the first year of his 5-year fellowship, lead a scientist team to develop a new roadmap of research, skills & training needs across an entire energy landscape. It is to be ardently hoped that this will also see applications in conserving the existing fragile earth against some highly damaging renewable energy proposals.
Translational implants: maths & medicine
A European translational research project that has just closed, brought together basic scientific knowledge from the areas of mathematics, medicine and computer science with the aim optimising the replacement of individual shoulder joints (patient-specific). In a world where off-the- shelf hIp and knee replacements are commonplace, tailored or patient specific implants sounds alluring.
Two clear bio structure visions
A Wellcome Trust Grant of £00,000 at the University of Dundee enables installation of new Xray diffraction equipment for single crystal X-ray diffraction for 3D molecular structures. At Leeds University computing experts and medical researchers develop a digital scanning system producing tissue samples in 3D using virtual microscope slides.
Inchinnan: biotech cluster growth
The Scottish biotech facility of US Life Technologies, has secured a $20m (£12.4m) investment to expand manufacturing at Inchinnan just as Queen's Award winner, Peak Scientific breaks ground on its Inchinnan facility expansion.
Queen's Awards: plan for 2013
Out of some 209 awards, Export (151) Innovation (50) and Sustainable Development (8) Scotland scored 19 awards in the Queens Enterprise Award trade sector over a range of manufacture and service activities, in oil, military, optics, software, food and energy. Four are believed to be in the business innovation category going for oil, military imaging, lifeboat launch and digital music. Final sign of the times, Whitelee Windfarms wins for Ibrodola's ScottishPower Renewables.
Cognitive fingerprints
The current standard method for validating a user’s identity for authentication on an information system needs humans to do something inherently unnatural: create, remember, and manage long, complex passwords. Now DARPA is to look towards the 'cognitive fingerprint' for on-line, active authentication.
Exploring University innovation
Innovation in Life Sciences is being celebrated at the University of Dundee and Celebrating Innovation’ takes place at Dalhousie Building from 2-6pm on on 17 April when leading academic and industry figures examine "How do you innovate as a University" in order to promote and assess the impact of innovation in terms of knowledge exchange, the development of industry, and the public good.
Bioeconomic strategies
Bioeconomics, defined as operations related to processing of biomass, Finland's Technical Research Centre VTT views it more widely as a future industrial sector created out of traditional biomass refining. Operation characteristics are resource efficiency, maximisation of value added, recycling, tight integration into energy production, and capacity for cross-sector innovation. The bioeconomy framework to serve society is formed on the three pillars of sustainability: financial profitability; and consideration of the environment.
Silent spring: neonicotinoids destroys bees
Back in January, two years of research in Indianna had US scientists identifying one factor to cause bee deaths being the extensive use of neo-nicotinoid insecticides on growing crops. Now new research at the University of Stirling, published in the top journal "Science", focused on bumblebee nests, sheds absolute confirmatory light on one global cause of bee declines.
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